Convex Hulls
- Castalia and
Deimos.
Philip Stook at U. Western Ontario
mentions an application of 3d convex hulls in mapping the surfaces
of these two asteroids.
- Convex hull,
Voronoi diagram, and Delaunay triangulation software
from
Nina Amenta's CG software directory.
- Convex hulls and interpolation. Ken Clarkson describes some implementation
details of algorithms for convex hulls, alpha shapes, Voronoi diagrams,
and natural
neighbor interpolation.
- Image
Processing and Pattern Recognition in Soil Structure. D. Luo of
Glasgow uses convex hulls and other geometric techniques to analyze
images of soil particles.
- Pneumonea
and tuberculosis diagnosis. Jason Everhart of Los
Alamos uses convex hulls as part of a heuristic for estimating the
percentage of lung volume occupied by a pneumonea infection.
This initial guess of the lung contour is then iteratively refined
to a more accurate representation.
- US
Patent 4704694 uses convex hulls to recognize objects from video images.
- US
Patent 5086482 seems to cover gift-wrapping methods of computing convex hulls in bitmap images.
- US
Patent 5159645 performs character recognition by using convex hulls
to find the counters in each character. A similar idea also occurs in
Patent
4817166.
- US Patents
5317681 and
5428717 cover methods for finding convex hulls of
polyhedra based on flipping reflex edges, along with an animated version
of this procedure that creates a smooth morph of the polyhedron to its hull.
- US
Patent 5463721 describes the use of convex hulls in a method for finding a
path for a radiation-beam scanner so it can get enough data
to reconstruct object shapes. Patents
4888693,
4969110,
and
5053958
also use convex hulls for computerized tomography.
- US
Patent 5465221 describes a part inspection system including the use
of convex hulls to determine stable orientations.
- US
Patent 5483606 describes a method of registering (lining up) copied
pages with each other in a copying machine, using the convex hulls of
images of the pages.
Part of
Geometry in Action,
a collection of applications of computational geometry.
David Eppstein,
Theory Group,
ICS,
UC Irvine.
Semi-automatically
filtered
from a common source file.
